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MUST a collection be returned as an Atom feed?

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Subject: MUST a collection be returned as an Atom feed?
From: Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:33:56 +0100
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I have raised the following issue on rest-discuss in various formsalready. Excuse me for bringing it up on this list again. I am justcurious what people here think.


RFC 5023 says:

"Collection - A Resource that contains a set of Member Resources.Collections are represented as Atom Feeds."[1]Does that mean that an AtomPub server MUST be (at least) respond to aGET on a collection URI with an Atom feed

representation?

I am asking because I consider that to be too constraining. The clientshould not be able to make such an assumption. It should discover atruntime that the response is application/atom+xml rather than expectit to be prior to the request.

Jan

[1]http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-3

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